I will put it into the hand of your tormentors ¹  who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”

Come through! Come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Build it! Build the roadway! Remove the stones! Lift a signal flag for the nations!

No human foot will pass through it, and no animal’s foot will pass through it; it will be uninhabited for forty years.

They will designate men to scout continually ¹  through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, ²  in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months.

When the scouts survey ¹  the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it ²  in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.

The one who can break through barriers will lead them out ¹  they will break out, pass through the gate, and leave. ²  Their king will advance ³  before them, The Lord himself will lead them. ⁴ 

Then I will surround my temple ¹  to protect it like a guard ²  from anyone crossing back and forth; so no one will cross over against them anymore as an oppressor, for now I myself have seen it.

“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab, that is, of Ar. ¹ 

After three days the leaders went through the camp

It crossed to the slope in front of the Arabah to the north and descended into the Arabah.

From there they traveled through the Ephraimite hill country and arrived at Micah’s house.

So Mordecai set out to do everything that Esther had instructed him.

My brothers ¹  have been as treacherous ²  as a seasonal stream, ³  and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams ⁴  that flow away. ⁵ 

For you ¹  will forget your trouble; ²  you will remember it like water that ³  has flowed away.

“Refrain from talking ¹  with me so that ²  I may speak; then let come to me ³  what may. ⁴ 

to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. ¹ 

He has blocked ¹  my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness ²  over my paths.

Their bulls ¹  breed ²  without fail; ³  their cows calve and do not miscarry.

Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts ¹  –